Editing Kate Bush (section)

===1989–1993: ''The Sensual World'' and ''The Red Shoes''===
Released in 1989, ''[[The Sensual World]]'' was described by Bush herself as "her most honest, personal album".<ref>{{cite web |date=19 January 2019 |last1=Hewitt |first1=Ben |title=Kate Bush: The Sensual World |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kate-bush-the-sensual-world/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=19 July 2019 |language=en |archive-date=1 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301224819/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kate-bush-the-sensual-world/ |url-status=live }}</ref> One of the tracks, "Heads We're Dancing", inspired by her own [[black humour]], is about a woman who dances all night with a charming stranger only to discover in the morning that he is [[Adolf Hitler]]. The [[The Sensual World (song)|title track]] drew its inspiration from [[James Joyce]]'s novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2fYlAAAAIBAJ&pg=7016,7079481&dq=hitler+heads-we-re-dancing+kate-bush&hl=en |title=Kate Bush's dream world |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=26 November 1989 |access-date=5 October 2020 |archive-date=21 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121174951/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2fYlAAAAIBAJ&pg=7016%2C7079481&dq=hitler+heads-we-re-dancing+kate-bush&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> ''The Sensual World'' went on to become her biggest-selling album in the US, receiving an RIAA Gold certification four years after its release for 500,000&nbsp;copies sold. In the United Kingdom album charts, it reached the number-two position.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Bush,_Kate/Biography/ |title=Kate Bush Biography |publisher=Starpulse.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926220237/http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Bush,_Kate/Biography/ |archive-date=26 September 2007}}</ref> Another single from the album, "[[This Woman's Work]]", was featured in the [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] film ''[[She's Having a Baby]]'', and a slightly remixed and reworked version appeared on Bush's album ''The Sensual World''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/08/five_great_john_hughes_moments.html |title=Five Great John Hughes Moments National Public Radio (United States) 6 August 2009 |last=Holmes |first=Linda |date=6 August 2009 |publisher=NPR |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129054552/http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/08/five_great_john_hughes_moments.html |archive-date=29 November 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref> The song reached number-eight in 2005 on the UK download chart after featuring in a British television advertisement for the charity [[NSPCC]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=16666&sectioncode=1 |title=Eighties Kate Bush track goes Top 10 on download chart |date=24 November 2005 |work=Music Week |access-date=21 November 2010 |archive-date=17 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117215008/http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=16666&sectioncode=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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| source = —Kate Bush, [[Q (magazine)|''Q'']], 1993<ref>{{cite news |title=Booze, fags, blokes and me |work=Q |date=December 1993}}</ref>
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In 1990, the boxed set ''[[This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978–1990|This Woman's Work]]'' was released; it included all of her albums with their original cover art, as well as two discs featuring the majority of her singles' B-sides recorded from 1978 to 1990. In 1991, Bush released a cover of [[Elton John]]'s "[[Rocket Man (song)|Rocket Man]]", which reached number 12 on the UK singles chart,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.everyhit.com/ |title=UK Top 40 Hit Database |publisher=EveryHit.com |access-date=15 May 2008 |archive-date=25 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025234857/http://www.everyhit.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and reached number two in Australia. In 2007, it was voted the greatest cover ever by readers of ''[[The Observer]]'' newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/ttremastered/story/0,,2166706,00.html |work=The Observer |title=The top 50 greatest covers as voted by you |access-date=26 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111032829/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/ttremastered/story/0,,2166706,00.html |archive-date=11 November 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Another John cover, "[[Candle in the Wind]]", was the B-side.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Great Rock Discography |last=Strong |first=Martin |publisher=[[Canongate Books]]|year=1994 |isbn=1-84195-615-5 |page=218}}</ref> In the same year, she starred in the black comedy film ''Les Dogs'', produced by ''[[The Comic Strip]]'' for [[BBC television]].<ref>{{cite magazine |year=1990 |title=Kate Bush |magazine=Q }}</ref> Bush plays the bride Angela at a wedding set in a post-apocalyptic Britain.

Bush's seventh studio album, ''[[The Red Shoes (album)|The Red Shoes]]'', was released in November 1993. The album gave Bush her highest chart position in the US, reaching number 28, although the only song from the album to make the US singles chart was "Rubberband Girl", which peaked at number 88 in January 1994. In the UK, the album reached number-two, and the singles "Rubberband Girl", "The Red Shoes", "Moments of Pleasure", and "[[And So Is Love]]" (featuring [[Eric Clapton]] on guitar) all reached the top 30.<ref name="OfficialCharts" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kate-Bush-Back-On-Stage-After-12-Years-7653.shtml |title=Back On Stage After 12 Years |publisher=Softpedia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195649/http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kate-Bush-Back-On-Stage-After-12-Years-7653.shtml |archive-date=10 September 2014}}</ref> Bush directed and starred in the short film ''[[The Line, the Cross and the Curve]]'', which featured music from her album ''The Red Shoes'', itself inspired by [[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|the 1948 film of that name]]. It was released on VHS in the UK in 1994 and also received a small number of cinema screenings around the world.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Aizlewood, John |date=December 2001 |title=The Big Sleep |magazine=Q}}</ref><ref>Mojo Magazine, page 81, October 2005 edition</ref>

The initial plan had been to tour with ''The Red Shoes'' release, but did not reach fruition. Thus, Bush deliberately produced her tracks live, with less studio production that had typified her last three albums and which would have been too difficult to re-create on stage.<ref>{{cite news |title=Well red |work=Future Music |date=November 1993}}</ref> The result polarised her fan base, who had enjoyed the intricacy of her earlier compositions,<ref>{{cite news |last=Gettelman |first=Parry |title=The Red Shoes review |work=The Orlando Sentinel |year=1993}}</ref> with other fans claiming they had found new complexities in the lyrics and the emotions they expressed.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Red Shoes review |work=Request |date=November 1993}}</ref>

During this period of time, Bush suffered a series of bereavements, including the loss of guitarist [[Alan Murphy]], who had started working with her on The Tour of Life in 1979, and her mother Hannah, to whom she was exceptionally close.<ref name="MightyBush" /> The people she lost were honoured in the ballad "Moments of Pleasure", although Bush's mother was still alive when "Moments of Pleasure" was written and recorded. Bush describes playing the song to her mother, who thought the line where she is quoted by Bush as saying, "Every old sock meets an old shoe", was hilarious and "couldn't stop laughing."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gtnyf |title=Interview with Ken Bruce on Radio 2, 9 May 2011 |work=[[BBC Radio 2]] |date=9 May 2011 |access-date=25 May 2011 |archive-date=27 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727181920/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gtnyf |url-status=live }}</ref>